Friday, January 20, 2006

Like Mike and Anna, I love to watch ice-skating. I could barely contain myself on Wednesday night when the contestants on my favorite reality show, Project Runway, were assigned the challenge of creating a costume for Sasha Cohen. Whereas America's Next Top Model is addictive because it's such a train wreck, Project Runway is classy and interesting. My mom calls me after every episode (Wednesdays at 10 EST on Bravo, but re-run all the time) to debrief the night's events. At the grocery store yesterday evening, I got into an intense conversation about the show with women I didn't even know. Tim Gunn's commentary about each contestant's work is indispensible for any fan of the show.

Highlights from the latest challenge, which Chloe deserved to win over Zulema:

Alice, my equivalent of your girl-detective-story was my (in retrospect equally bizarre) conviction that I would be able to solve the puzzle of a series of mysterious deaths of polar bears at the Philadelphia Zoo -- I don't think I ever did as much archival research as you, though...

k8 on Thu Jan 26, 09:50:00 PM:

Alice, I love this post. Don't forget to add to your read-and-crack-the-secret list Three Days of the Condor, with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, in which RR is a CIA agent whose JOB it is to read every effing novel published that year to find messages being passed between spies IN THE TEXTS. It's ultimately a story about becoming disillusioned with the supposedly noble motives of US foreign policy and its governing organziations (i.e. CIA), but RR's job in it is cooooool. He is Super Nerd Spy Hunter.